Cloud FinOps Engineer
Key Skills for This Role
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Build and Operate FinOps Tooling
Develop and maintain FinOps dashboards, reporting, and automation solutions
Leverage: GCP Billing Export BigQuery Looker Studio Cloud Monitoring
GCP Billing Export
BigQuery
Looker Studio
Cloud Monitoring
Build automated cost reporting and anomaly detection capabilities
Create self-service visibility for engineering and product teams
Drive Infrastructure-as-Code Governance
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code standards using: Terraform Terragrunt
Terraform
Terragrunt
Embed cost controls into infrastructure deployment workflows
Implement guardrails to prevent inefficient resource provisioning
Ensure tagging and resource ownership standards are enforced across all environments
Partner with engineering teams to improve infrastructure efficiency through code
Integrate FinOps into Cloud Operations
Work alongside Cloud Operations and SRE teams to ensure cost becomes a first-class operational metric
Participate in recurring cost optimization reviews
Establish operational processes for anomaly detection and remediation
Develop automated cleanup and lifecycle management solutions
Create operational playbooks for cost management and resource governance
Forecast, Budget, and Report
Develop cloud consumption forecasts and spend projections
Perform variance analysis against budgets
Provide regular reporting to technical and business stakeholders
Establish and track FinOps KPIs and cloud efficiency metrics
Support chargeback and showback initiatives
Support Governance and Compliance
Ensure cloud spend aligns with organizational governance policies
Support audit and compliance requirements
Promote accountability and ownership across cloud-consuming teams
Maintain documentation, standards, and operational procedures related to cloud financial management
Required Qualifications
- Google Cloud Platform
- 5+ years of cloud infrastructure or cloud operations experience
- 3+ years of hands-on Google Cloud Platform experience
- Strong working knowledge of: GCP Billing BigQuery Compute Engine GKE Cloud SQL Cloud Storage VPC Networking Identity and Access Management (IAM) Grafana
- GCP Billing
- BigQuery
- Compute Engine
- GKE
- Cloud SQL
- Cloud Storage
- VPC Networking
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Grafana
Infrastructure as Code
Advanced Terraform experience
Strong Terragrunt experience
Experience developing reusable infrastructure modules
Experience implementing infrastructure governance through code
Strong understanding of Git-based infrastructure workflows
Automation & Development
Strong Python scripting skills
Strong SQL skills, especially BigQuery
Experience building automation for cloud operations
Familiarity with APIs and cloud-native automation frameworks
Experience developing operational tooling for engineering teams
FinOps & Cloud Economics
Experience performing cloud cost analysis and optimization
Experience managing cloud budgets and forecasting
Strong understanding of: Cost allocation strategies Resource tagging frameworks Chargeback/showback models Unit economics Financial accountability in cloud environments
Cost allocation strategies
Resource tagging frameworks
Chargeback/showback models
Unit economics
Financial accountability in cloud environments
Preferred Qualifications
- FinOps Certified Practitioner (FCP)
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
- Kubernetes administration and optimization experience
- Experience supporting environments exceeding seven-figure annual cloud spend
- Experience operating in SOC2, ISO27001, or regulated environments
- Experience building enterprise-scale FinOps program
- We are seeking a highly technical FinOps Engineer to drive cloud financial management, optimization, and governance across our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment. This is a hands-on engineering role that combines cloud infrastructure expertise, automation, financial analytics, and operational governance. The successful candidate will partner with Cloud Operations, SRE, Platform Engineering, and Finance teams to ensure cloud resources are deployed efficiently, operated responsibly, and continuously optimized for cost and business value. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys working directly with GCP services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform/Terragrunt, cloud billing data, automation, and large-scale cloud operations.
- What You'll Do Lead GCP Cost Optimization Initiatives
- Analyze cloud spending across GCP environments and identify opportunities for optimization
- Drive reduction of waste across: Compute Engine GKE AlloyDB BigQuery Cloud SQL Cloud Storage Networking
- AlloyDB
- Networking
- Identify rightsizing opportunities and utilization improvements
- Optimize commitment strategies including: Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) Sustained Use Discounts
- Committed Use Discounts (CUDs)
- Sustained Use Discounts
- Track realized savings and cost avoidance initiatives
Location:
- India – (Flexible hybrid work model - work from Bangalore office for 20 days in a quarter)
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